Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten

I break tradition, sometimes my tries, are outside the lines
We’ve been conditioned to not make mistakes, but I can’t live that way

Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find

Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins

Comments

Happy Birthday to the Tornado and congratulations to you! Every birthday my children celebrate becomes more and more sweet as I think of all the precious memories and every minute of the life I’ve lived with them. Enjoy!

My son’s birthday was the day after Thanksgiving…big 10. I had to pre-call his friends to see who would be in town before passing out invitations. Sometimes his b-day lands right on Thanksgiving! He’s just another reason to be SO thankful!

Have no clue what she will pick (the world is her oyster from painting pottery to build a bear)…

I laugh that in all the excitement and forever celebrating we got her nary a gift.

although that may not really be an accident but a subconscious thing.
Im more about the experiential stuff and, as anyone whos ever crossed the threshold of those places knows, neither pottery not Build A Bear is cheap

Hi, there. I’m a first time visitor to your blog and am blown away by the variety of it. It comes across as fit as you are, for it felt as if I was speeding along reading all your entries. What a great site. Congratulations on being so fit. Did you have a weight problem before, or have you always been fortunate to be this fit?

It may be her birthday (and many, many happy returns of the day!) though you (and Renman?) have done most of the work. I could not understand why the kids always got so many presents in those early years when they had the *gift* of us as their parents (and we gave them the gift of life). 😉
(Isn’t it the teen years when they start screaming, “I didn’t ask to be born!!!”)

Maybe my perspective is twisted because I had twins but I still wanted recognition for being the parent. It wasn’t until I got much older (I was a young mom) and recognized myself that I got that much desired attention.